Season 3 was lame in itself but it had the evil Soviet commies as the main enemy. Hard to tell how much of it was sincere and how much was just an homage to all the 80s movies that did this.
The typical romanticizing of the 80s is itself a sort of pro-capitalist propaganda. It often conceals harsh realities of the 80s like deindustrialization, the AIDs crisis, CIA death squads, the crack epidemic, the gutting of social safety nets and so on in favor of nostalgia for gimmicky products and pop culture that was at the time often a mouth piece for US imperialism.
Right, I sort of did too. I think the writer's intent was more of a spoof on the 80s trope. I mean, it's Russians in secret bunker under a mall. Not sure it's meant to present a serious critique of the USSR.
What I don't let them off the hook for is everything else wrong with season 3. Just bad all around, IMO.
Season 3 was lame in itself but it had the evil Soviet commies as the main enemy. Hard to tell how much of it was sincere and how much was just an homage to all the 80s movies that did this.
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The typical romanticizing of the 80s is itself a sort of pro-capitalist propaganda. It often conceals harsh realities of the 80s like deindustrialization, the AIDs crisis, CIA death squads, the crack epidemic, the gutting of social safety nets and so on in favor of nostalgia for gimmicky products and pop culture that was at the time often a mouth piece for US imperialism.
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Right, I sort of did too. I think the writer's intent was more of a spoof on the 80s trope. I mean, it's Russians in secret bunker under a mall. Not sure it's meant to present a serious critique of the USSR.
What I don't let them off the hook for is everything else wrong with season 3. Just bad all around, IMO.
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Honestly S2 wasn't great either, and S3 was worse
Completely agree.